4 October

The October long weekend celebrates Labour Day. The achievement of the 8 hour work day, by unions. 8 hours rest, 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure. The bitter irony of introducing Daylight Savings on the same weekend? Workers get not one second of extra leisure time from it. Instead we put the clocks forward an hour to use some of our own 8 hours of leisure a bit more. That’s what DST is. Introduced by employers, to give the illusion of more leisure time for workers. We could have avoided the entire mess (look at the mess) by just finishing work one hour earlier in Spring and Summer. But most of us aren’t in unions, so we have to just do as we’re told.